Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Nikita Khrushchev put a slow fuse on his threat to turn Berlin over to the East German authorities, he did not act capriciously. In both preceding crises of 1958, the United States reacted more impetuously than the Soviets had calculated; the six-month period of grace on the Berlin issue was designed to provide time enough so that doubt and dissension could germinate among the Western allies...
...Bandas wanted an end to the Central African federation, so apparently did Southern Rhodesia's whites. In the last territorial election they gave a majority of their votes to the anti-Welensky Dominion Party, which wants to cut the territory loose from its predominantly black partners and turn it into a smaller version of the Union of South Africa...
...Kill Him!" Dressed in a blue denim prison jacket, Sosa Blanco grinned at the crowd. He raised his manacled hands, postured like the villain of a rigged wrestling match. The mob yelled, "Kill him! Kill him!" "This is the Colosseum in Rome," jeered Sosa Blanco, when he got a turn at the microphone. "I met brave rebels in the mountains, not types like you here. All you do is talk...
...Kozyrev tells how he trained a 50-in. telescope on the moon on the night of Nov. 2-3 and took spectrograms of the crater Alphonsus. While he was watching, he saw the small, central peak of the crater lose its sharpness and turn reddish. By the time he changed the plate to take the next spectrogram, the peak was white again but much brighter than usual. A third spectrogram showed the crater back to normal...
...Sunday interview on WRCA's Searchlight to score the city's school-building program as being "too fast and too fancy," stirred an open row in the papers. As reporters clamored for rebuttal to Gerosa's charges, school board officials bided their time until they in turn could state their case...